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AI and higher education: notes from early 2025
Bryan Alexander, AI, academia, and the Future, 2025/01/23

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Bryan Alexander reports on AI in the (U.S.) academic community in early 2025, including a deepening divide over AI in academia, both in higher ed and the K-12 sector, some projects such as the AI Skills Coalition by AI for Good and Google's teacher bot Learn About, and AI in research, including a research team that "used generative AI to build knowledge about historical texts."

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Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 2025/01/23

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I can attest to this. In many of the Subreddits I follow moderators have started to ban Twitter/X following the demands of hundreds of members. The turning point was Elon Musk's performance during the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. It's not political (indeed, the political subreddits have been conspicuous in their absence from this trend). Related: "The Verge reported today that NFL teams aren't allowed to have Bluesky accounts, with the NFL having already told the Patriots team to take down its Bluesky account."

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The Experience – All Night Read
Cori Saas, coyote chalk, 2025/01/23

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This is a great story about an idea that began in the dark of the pandemic and then grew into something unique: "Our task: to read from start to finish, without stopping. I had learned of such an idea from Alan, who shared stories of his friend Gardner reading Paradise Lost in one sitting with his university class. Gardner writes that reading Milton's work in such a way is to have 'the experience.'"

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The Website Manifesto
Nora Reed, 2025/01/23

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I agree with this: "When you post on social media, you are subject to the whims of whoever runs it. If you get banned, no one knows how to find you. If the website gets sold to someone who sucks, you cannot transfer your identity somewhere else. If the main algorithm that people use to find your posts starts suppressing your posts, you have no backup plan." Here's a thread on the subject. Via Mark Corbett Wilson, who uses Reclaim to host his website.

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